FURTHER REPORT ON EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF MENTAL HYGIENE TECHNIQUES IN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY

Autor:	Leon Laski, Donald K. Phillips, Fred Brown, Minerva L. Brown, Benjamin H. Balser
Rok vydání:	1957
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Schools business.industry education Mental health Positive direction Test (assessment) Psychiatry and Mental health Mental Health Mental hygiene medicine Humans Statistical analysis Psychological testing Psychiatry business Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	American Journal of Psychiatry. 113:733-739
ISSN:	1535-7228 0002-953X
DOI:	10.1176/ajp.113.8.733
Popis:	A further study on experimental evaluation of controlled mental hygiene workshops in school and community is reported. This controlled study was made on mental health workshop groups of teachers and parents and controlled by other groups of teachers and parents from the same and other communities. These studies were all made in Westchester County, New York State. Psychological test instruments were used before and after the mental health workshops for both the experimental and control groups, all groups being tested simultaneously. The scoring and statistical analysis of over 110,000 test items lead to the following conclusions: 1. The experimental groups as a whole showed more changes in a positive direction than did the control groups. 2. There was a significant trend for parents in the experimental groups to show greater over-all changes than did the teachers as compared with changes in the control groups. 3. In spite of the differences in content, approach, and instructions to the experimental groups,...
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